William S. Cohen Quotes

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

We have collapsed distances, taken down walls, and spread information.

The Chinese and the Americans are great peoples. The Americans are optimistic, full of enterprising drive, down to earth, and innovative. In just over 200 years, they have turned the United States into the most developed country in the world, and made phenomenal achievements in economic development and science and technology.

With the advent of technology the world has surely become a smaller place.

Communications are making this one world. Back in the day, 400-500 years ago, nobody knew what anyone else was doing. It's on the 6 O'Clock news now. Now we can say, Oh, that's the way they live. Oh, they do that!! Opportunities, the chance to bring about change, it's all based on communication. Communication and jet planes.

If you and I got on an airplane, you're going to L.A., Los Angeles, and I'm going to Senegal, we get there about the same time. The world is just that small. So a world that is so tightly bound by science and technology and now Internet and the web page, that world is too small for bullies. It has no room in that world for arrogance.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

The world map looks smaller than ever before.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.

I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.

We're in a 21st century, transparent and connected world.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

This is a very different world. Much of it is new. What has happened is that information technology has politicized the world…It’s a world where most of the big problems spill over national boundaries.

The world has grown frightening small in compass.

You can't stop globalization any more than you can stop computers.

National cultures and heritages must compete for man's attention with the mind-absorbing advances of universal science.

At the present time, when railways, the telegraph, the telephone, to say nothing of other inventions and improvements of importance, have simplified communication between all lands and nations to the last degree, there is scarcely any reason to fear either distance or the estrangement of the several parts of a single whole. Practically distance is almost nonexistent. What to our ancestors appeared simply near at hand now seems to lie immediately before our eyes